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The article attempts to describe the transformation of Polish theoretical literary studies after 1989. The author points to a few significant elements which influenced that change. He focuses on the difference between the (anti)structuralist breakthrough and two earlier shifts: the anti-positivist and anti-Marxist one. (...)
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This article presents an interpretation of selected novels by Thomas Bernhard based on the hypothesis of literary influence, in the wider perspective of Witold Gombrowicz’s meta-literary and anthropological views. (...)
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This is an interview with Robert Macfarlane – a professor of Environmental Humanities at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is also a traveller and a world-famous author of best-selling books about nature, relations between “landscapes and the human heart” (as he says), places and imagination. (...)
![Landscape and Imagination: A History of Fascination and an Anatomy of Passion in Jacek Woźniakowski’s Góry niewzruszone [Immovable Mountains] and Robert Macfarlane’s Mountains of the Mind](http://fp.amu.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/EDutka_LandscapeAndImagination_ForumOfPoetics_35_2024-01-122x173.jpg)
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Mountain studies in the humanities concentrates on the relation between people and mountains. Robert Macfarlane explored that topic in Mountains of the Mind (2003). In this article, Macfarlane’s bestseller is compared with Jacek Woźniakowski’s Góry Niewzruszone [Immovable Mountains] (1974). (...)
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This research paper attempts to explore an intersection between psychoanalysis and ecocriticism in Japan. Specifically, applied to the literary descriptions in the work “2:46 Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake (2011)” from the eco-psychological viewpoint. (...)